first name
KORTNEY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,924 people named Kortney, 74.2% reported their origin as White, 16.9% as Black and 4.4% as two or more races. 93.1% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kortney peaked in 1990, when 335 babies got the name.
At least 5,749 babies have been given the name since 1966. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Kortney by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,436. The largest share of babies named Kortney, 58.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Kortney is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kortney has been most common in Utah (4.6×), Indiana (2.2×), and Michigan (2.1×), and least common in New Jersey (0.33×).
3,236 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kortney, most common first.
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